Alex the Artist

Alex had a masterpiece chosen to be displayed in an art show for his school district.

"The attention to detail, the bold colors, the picaso-esque background, and the way the subject stands erect makes this piece of art ("Dino Standing") a clear forerunner in the competition" someone was heard saying.

Father like son

Alex is grateful his art teacher who encouraged Alex to "let his emotions show" and to "take a risk" when creating his work of art.

February update

Alex's soccer photo last October. He had his first game of the new season yesterday. In stead of the "Zebras" they are now "Storm FC!" ...same uniforms.

Bedtime stories

After 8+ years of living here in Plano, we finally decided to get some new flowers and update our landscaping...here's what we had done (I will have to post photos of the real thing at some point. It looks good)

This was all mud and dead grass on the side of our house


Alex lost his first tooth about a week ago

Thanks for the quilts Grandma!

Alex with his quilt from Grandma

Gray with his quilt


Gray getting into the snack bin tonight...M&Ms

U of U

I forgot to post this shot of Alex... on the day the U spanked BYU (sorry Jason and Mindi)

December 2008

Gray wearing Dad's hat

Christmas Eve song

Christmas morning...Gray with a new toy

Alex with new marble blocks

Alex and Dad on Christmas morning

Thanksgiving Weekend

We spent Thanksgiving with some friends. Then, on Friday, we left for the Gaylord Texan. It's a pretty cool hotel. We stayed one night and came home on Saturday. Santa was there and so was Mrs. Claus with Blitzen!

The Gaylord has the Ice show each year. It is pretty amazing. Everything is scultped in, you guessed it, ice. It was 9 degress inside the area so they had to give us coats. It was still freezing. But the ice was pretty cool to see. Here's a slide show of some of the sculptures...

Dad and Grandma helped Alex with his "quarter" costume for the Vocabulary Parade.

Grandma and Alex at Taylor elementry during lunch

Alex at school

Alex spends most of his time after school or church building airplanes or anything else his imagination comes up with. We can't throw anything away because he tell us he will use it to build something...

Ready to strike!

Alex is ready for kindergarten's "Fairy Tale Ball" (substitute "Halloween" party since Halloween is apparently offensive to some people)

Alex takes his little brother for a ride...